Over 56 percent turnout was recorded on Monday in 54 assembly seats, including in Varanasi, in the seventh and last phase of Uttar Pradesh polls, marking the end of the voting process spread over two months in the crucial state.
The counting of votes in Uttar Pradesh as well as in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa will be on March 10.
Voting started at 7 AM and ended at 6 PM, except in Naxal-hit Chakia (Chandauli), Robertsganj and the Duddhi (Sonbhadra) seats where it concluded at 4 PM.
The voting percentage was recorded at 56.77 per cent, according to the Election Commission. The polling percentage in the seventh phase in the 2017 Assembly elections in 2017 was 59.56 percent. No untoward incident was reported from the state, Additional Chief Electoral Officer BDR Tiwari said.
Chandauli saw a relatively high turnout of 61.99 percent and Varanasi 58.80 percent.
Azamgarh witnessed 53.82 percent voting, Bhadohi 56.90 percent, Ghazipur 56.54 percent, Jaunpur 56.17 percent, Mau 57.02 percent, Mirzapur 54.93 percent and Sonbhadra 58.69 percent.
The final polling figure will be available on Tuesday, an official said.
The state has seen a decrease in voter turnout in the last three phases. In the previous six phases, the state recorded a turnout of 62.43 percent, 64.42 percent, 62.28 percent, 61.52 percent, 57.32 percent and 55.79 percent.
The state had recorded 61.24 percent polling in the 2017 assembly elections. A total of 613 candidates were in the fray for the 54 seats, including those falling in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary segment Varanasi, in the final phase.
The fate of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party president Om Prakash Rajbhar and several state ministers was decided in this round, in which 2.06 crore people were eligible to vote.